Why 30 minutes?

[Aaron Here]

Hi Shane,

I can't help but wonder how you decided on a default value of 30 minutes between CleanMem runs?   That sure seems like a very long time between runs!

Do you have any suggestions as to how one might go about optimizing that parameter for their specific computing habits?

Aaron

[Shane]

Well I had to think of a time to run it, and 30 min just popped into my head, this was 2 years ago now I think, been a while since I first made cleanmem. I just always kept it there.

You can change the value in the windows task scheduler. I say change it to what fits you needs. For example, I am on a system with 4gb of ram, my memory never gets completely used up. So the 30 min is perfect to help keep things smooth.

Now lets take a person with only 1gb of ram and they are using some memory hungry apps like Auto cad. Well their memory keeps getting eaten up every 15 min or so, so setting cleanmem to 10 min keeps their system running smooth.

So a good rule of thumb is how fast does the memory get eaten? How fast does a memory leak in a program climb? (Like multimedia in Firefox)

Then adjust the time cleanmem runs to that 

Shane

[Aaron Here]

Thanks for the quick reply Shane.   Are there any other 'tuning' parameters?  ...and if so, what are their default values?

Aaron

[Shane]

Not really. The program is meant to be a set it and forget type tool. You can tweak it a little by telling it to skip certain programs, but I just leaves those alone myself since it never cause any problems.

Basically install it set the time different than 30 min if you want, then forget about it

Shane

[Aaron Here]

Ok  ...and thanks very much for developing and sharing this cool little app.

Happy New Year!

[Shane]

Thanks and Happy new year 

Locking Thread.

Shane